These are the first few lines of Julie's blog this morning:
As I sit and write this, in front of my beautiful computer,
a cup of coffee next to me, in my safe, big new home,
mothers are burying their babies.
This is not okay.
***
As I sit and write this, in front of my beautiful computer,
a cup of coffee next to me, in my safe, big new home,
mothers are burying their babies.
This is not okay.
***
I read those lines and looked around me. That was EXACTLY what I was doing. Sitting in my heated home...oversized and spacious...hot cup of coffee...my three kids in cozy footed pajamas.
I was just talking to someone about the unfathomable grief that must come with burying your child.
I had 6 minutes before I lost Jill. God graced us with sparing at least a few of those precious minutes.
I think we forget that mothers around the world bury their babies.
I think we sometimes justify it by thinking that "well, they're used to it. they see babies dying everyday."
blech.
ugly, ugly hearts of ours sometimes.
I don't believe for a SECOND that any mother, in any country, no matter how destitute, does not feel the burning anguish for a dying or sick child.
$10 will provide one person in Africa with clean water for TEN YEARS.
TEN YEARS.
I spent more than that on some fabric last night.
EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. will buy clean water.
So *please* take the two minutes and donate.
Super easy. Super quick. Super important.
Go.
Now.
Donate.
Really.
Don't say you'll do it later.
Just go.
Leave a comment if you donated. Let's see if we can reach $100 today.
I was just talking to someone about the unfathomable grief that must come with burying your child.
I had 6 minutes before I lost Jill. God graced us with sparing at least a few of those precious minutes.
I think we forget that mothers around the world bury their babies.
I think we sometimes justify it by thinking that "well, they're used to it. they see babies dying everyday."
blech.
ugly, ugly hearts of ours sometimes.
I don't believe for a SECOND that any mother, in any country, no matter how destitute, does not feel the burning anguish for a dying or sick child.
$10 will provide one person in Africa with clean water for TEN YEARS.
TEN YEARS.
I spent more than that on some fabric last night.
EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. will buy clean water.
So *please* take the two minutes and donate.
Super easy. Super quick. Super important.
Go.Now.
Donate.
Really.
Don't say you'll do it later.
Just go.
Leave a comment if you donated. Let's see if we can reach $100 today.
7 comments:
SO glad you posted this--and what a small world, I'm friends (in real life!) with Jody Landers, who started "Water for Christmas". She's amazing, and I'm definitely donating today.
Thanks for this, Jeannett. I just donated. I'll check back to see where your count is. Kiss the kids from me, please.
I am so glad to see this. Peter and I have been working with Lifewater International for 10+ years and have traveled to Ecuador 3 times to teach trainers hygiene and santitation. Lifewater's office is in SLO! Their "life verse" is I Tim. 2:2 which, in essence says "to teach to train to train to teach" They provide the training to teach well drilling and pump repair as well as latrine building! The people OWN their provision for the life-saving clean water! Yes, every 15 seconds a child dies of a water related disease (in 2002 it was every 8 seconds, so it is improving), but, no child should die from a PREVENTABLE disease! All that to say, our heart is with you, but our money is going to Lifewater!
thanks, jeannett, for letting us know! i donated.
"I don't believe for a SECOND that any mother, in any country, no matter how destitute, does not feel the burning anguish for a dying or sick child."
AMEN.
I had seen this on Joy's Hope too...and was going to donate this morning but got busy...now I just donated. You are so amazing all the things you make us aware of. Thanks for letting me spend time with you and those darling kids today. THAT is a gift in itself. I'm glad you are a good sharer.
thanks, jeannett. what a great organization.
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